John nichols



(No Model.)

J. NICHOLS.

GONVERTIBLE CHAIR.

No. 389.163. Patented t. 4, 1888.

N. PETERS. Photo-Lmwgnphun Washington, D c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN NICHOLS, OF TEMPLETON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO GILMAN YVAITE, OF SAME PLACE.

CONVERTIBLE CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 389,163. dated September 4, 1888.

Application filed July 12, 1884. Renewed June 4, 1888. Serial No. 175,908. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN NicHoLs, of Templeton, in the county of \Vorccster and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Convertible Chair, of which the following is a specification.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a device embodying my invention opened out to form a childs carriage. Fig. 2 is the same converted into a high chair. Fig. 3 is a sectional eleva tion, and Fig. 4 is a rear view of Fig. 1.

My invention consists in the combination of a rigid main leg or seat-supporting frame, having wheels upon it, with a chair seat, the chair-seat and main frame being connected by brackets and abutments and bolts, so that the chair will be horizontal, whether the main frame be supported by the wheels or be stood on end, as I will now proceed to particularly set forth and claim.

A is the frame composed of front and rear legs rigidly connected by rounds, b I); B, the handle-frame, detachablyjointed to the frame in any suitable manner; and C the seat, of usualconfiguration. The main frame A has the pairs of wheels (0 arranged at either end upon one side of it, so that when supported by the wheels the main frame serves as the body of the childs carriage, as shown in Fig. 1.

The simplest way of adapting the chairseat C for either position of the frame A is that shown in the drawings-namely, to employ the brackets d, composed of the members d d", which are fast to the chair-seat C near its front end and pivoted to the frame A, the pivots being so placed that the chair seat in being shifted from one position to another will be stopped in either one of these two positions by the abut-mentsfg on the frame and be held in such position by the spring-bolts h on the chairseat engaging such abutments.

The combination of the chair-seat and the rigid frame connected by the brackets, bolts, and abutments, as herein set forth, is such that the frame can be used with the chair-seat on 5 one end, the frame then constituting the legs of the chair, or it can be used with the chair-seat on one side, the frame in that case constituting the carriage-body.

What I claim is- 1. The combination of the pairs of legs and the rounds b, rigidly connecting them, the abutnients f g, the seat C, the brackets (1, composed of the members d J connected to the under side of the bottom of the seat, adjacent 5 5 to the front of the same, and pivoted to the leg'frame for adjusting the seat on the legframe, and the bolts h, for connecting the seat to the abutments in its positions of use on the ends of the legs when theyarc upright and on their sides when horizontal, substantially as described.

2. A childs convertible chair and carriage, consisting of the following elements in combination, viz: pairs of front and rear legs rigidly connected by rounds, pairs of wheels a at opposite ends of the leg-frame, a seat, C, and brackets d, composed of the members d (P, which are rigidly connected to the seat and pivotally connected to the legs, whereby the seat may be shifted from the ends of the legs when they are upright to the sides of the legs when they are horizontal, and abutments on the rear and front legs, respectively, and bolts to positively connect the seat with said abutments in its said two positions, substantially as and for the purpose described.

JOHN NICHOLS.

Witnesses:

J. E. MAYNADIER, A. B. STEvENs. 

